Amusement and protective device



` March s, 1927.

K. Kol-IN AMUSEMENT AND PROTECTIVE DEVICE l Filed Dec. 27. 1923 3mm/Hof.

Patented Mar. 8, 1927.

UNITED STATES 1,620,561 PATENT-OFFICE.

KOBY KOI-IN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO VICTORY SPARKLER & SPECIALTY CO., OF ELKTON, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE. i

AMUSEMENT AND PROTECTIVE DEVICE.

Application led December 27, V1923. Serial No. 683,065.

This invention relates to toys, and more especially to toys of the irework class.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a holder for sparklers or other light sources with aprotective guard arranged between the light source and the person viewing it.

Another of the objects of this invention is to provide a novel and amusing toy for use with sparklers and analogous lights and adapted to show sparks or light of a different color than that emanating from the light source.

Another feature of the invention is to provide a. device intended to give unique optical eifects'when used in connection with various light sources and more particularly with what are generally known as sparklers.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple structure by which the sparks and light from a sparkler are made to take on various colors and intermittently change color without having any relative movement or rotation between the sparkler and the color screen.

In order to attain the above objects I have devised a construction including a rod or stick adapted to be held at one end in the hand and at the other end to support a `sparkler and having a guard. whichv may comprise a disk orsheet ofv fire resistant material arranged between the ends of the rod. An opening is provided in the disk in which is arrangedone or more strips of transparent colored material so disposed that they come between the eye of the operator and the ignited portion of a sparkler. The whole is adapted to be` moved bythe hand in arcs or circles whereby the observer notes simultanously sparks of each of the colors of the transparent members covering the opening in the disk and, at the same time, sees a series of concentric bands of color` each one corresponding to one ofthe above mentioned colors. Means is provided whereby at will the operator may vobserve a single colored ring of light corresponding to any one of the colors arranged in the opening in the disk.

The novel features of this invention will be more fully understood from the following description and claims taken in connection with the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a perspective yview of the de vice showing a sparkler arranged in positionand ready to be lighted. l

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through the device, a portion ofthe stick being shown v adapt the device to various size sparklers.v

Preferably this end of the rod is treated with a tire proofing solution. Arranged between the ends of the rod l and rigidly fastened 'thereto is a tapered sleeve 5 having at one end thereof a radial flange 6.

An opaque disk T formed of any suitable material. but preferably cardboard which may be fire proofed if desired, is provided with a hole 8 snugly fitting over the tapered sleeve 5 so that the disk abuts the flange 6, thus being supported rigidlv but adjustably in relation to the rod 1 and at right angles thereto. 1

The disk is preferably' of circular or elliptical shape withr the hole 8 close to one edge thereof and is so positioned in relation to the rod 1 that its largest area is directly betweenthe observer who grasps one end of therod, and the combustible portion of the sparkler 4. An aperture 9 of generally rectangular shape is arranged in the disk 7 in'such a position and of such length that an observer grasping` the rod l and holding the device with the arm extended mayyobserve the full length of the combustible portion of a sparkler through this opening.

Strips l0 and ll -of'any suitable transparent medium, such 'as' gelatine. are fastened longitudinally across the opening 9 such as by a suitable adhesive holding their ends against the surface of the cardboard. I have shown four of these strips and they are of alternate colors, such as red and blue, but it is to be understood that any desired number and color of strips may be used. The red strips l0 and blue strips 11 are spaced apart leaving the small slots 12 clear, and since gelatine is a very fragile material it may be desirable Ato cover these strips Withone large sheet .of .somewhat .thicker transparent gelatine 13, which is securely fastened ,to `the cardboard by all of its edges and thus tends to maintain the more ragile strips l0 and ll in position'and protects them from mechanical injury. It will be seen from the above description that the opening 9 in the disk 7 is covered by a screen .comprised oi" vertical strips of transparent material arranged in fthe order `ired, vWhite and blue :and occurring twice. The larger gelatine sheet I8 is pret- ,era-b-lv uncolored or 'ma be milk White.

To operate the device, the end of the rod remote from the sparkler is firmly grasped, the spa-rkler lighted, the arm extended, and the hand then rotated fin any desired anc or circle keeping the colored strips 0n the disk in a vert-ical position. The operator will then observe the sparkler and the sparks emanating ltherefrom through the celo-red strips successively, land the sparks vill :appear in the example `described .above as ired, white and blue, and if :the sparkler is in a direct line from the eye yand the middle open spaee l2, a ring of light will be observed ozt the Adiameterdrn which `the device is rotated. This ring Iof'light :is composed of alternating red, 'White and blue segments in the Vorder named. Y

The ,opening 8 in the-disk 7 is asnug ylit on the sleeve 5, but may be :adausta-bly rotated thereon, and when this is done in such a direction that the blue-colored lgelatine comes .between the observerfs @eye and .the spar-klei', a blue circle et lightavill be seenemanativng from .the ,point olf combustion of the sparkler, v

i cause a large ring of red, White and blue sparks to .be seen, the diameter of the ring being approximately twice `the distance from the rod to .the outer yedge ot the opening 9 in the disk 7. Concentric Ared, White and blue ringsV of light will also be seen -as described above. Y

It may be found desirable instead of using independently Icolored .strips et ,gelatine 0r other .transparent material to use one sheet of 'such material .with the various `colored strips painted, printed or dyed thereon. I`h1s l.construction is probably preferable since it is stronger mechanically and ollers greater ease `of assembly and thus cheapens Ythe manufacturing feest of the final product.

Al-though I have mentioned :the use of gela- :Lineas being ,prefer-Libie for the colored strips 'the point ot' burning has a very high 'tem- -perature and sometmies .draps olimelten ma terial fall from the sparkler. Small children 4are .often trusted lwith vspar :1ers under the misapprehension that they arexfentirely sate. an d a number fof painful and :a lieu' seri eus accidents have resulted 'trom children being burned by spankle-rs. My demiceeftlectually prevents such accidentssiinoe :thereiis arranged l;)et\veentl1e operator and .the sparkler a disk ot lire resista-ut material,` r file at Ithe 'same :ti-me, the rod l .is :oft such leneith as :to hold the sparkler ;a material `diet-ance treni `all portions of fthe @pera-tor, :and hence the da; e'er .olf being burned is Vconsiderably lessenec it' :notfentifrel'y removed.

Nh-ile I have described the above device in but `one form, i-t will be obvious ltothesc skilled in the art that it may be y.censt-ructed iin vari-ous manners, and Indo not 'desi-re to be limited to the modification shown, except as `set forth in the following claims.

Having thus described my inventien what I claim and desire 'to secure .by United Sta-tes Letters Patent is: i

l. In a color Ychanger for sparklers and the like, a holder for a sparkler adapted to be grasped in the hand, Vafndna transparent colored medium rigidly gino-unted between vthe sparkler and the pontiovn'ozt` the holder tively mounted between said handle and said supporting means.` i -u 5. In a device for viewingsparklers and the like, a rod, means at one end thereof for supporting a sparkleryan opaque disk mounted on said rod between theends there- Sil) of, an ,opening in said disk v opposite lthelso.,

combustible portion of said sparkler, and a transparent multicolored medium in said opening.

6. In a device for viewing 'sparklers and the like, a rod slotted at one end and adapted to engage t-he uncoated port-ion of a sparkler to support the same, and a transparent particolored screen mounted on said rod.

7. In a device for viewing sparklers and the like, a rod slotted at one end to support a sparkler, an Opaque disk mounted in a plane at right angles to said rod and rigidly fixed thereto, an aperture in said disk opposite the combustible portion of said sparkler and parallel strips of differently colored transparent media covering said aperture.

8. In a toy device, a sparkler, a rod having a clamp at one end thereof to rigidly hold the sparkler thereon, an opaque disk eccentrically mounted on said rod and having an opening covered by a particolored transparent screen, and means whereby the rod may be moved in circles while viewing the sparkler through the screen.

9. In a toy and protective device for viewing sparklers, a rod having oneI end adapted to be held by the operator, means on the opposite end of said rod for supporting a sparkler, and a spark resistant shield rigidly fastened to said rod and having an aperture covered by a transparent colored medium.

10. In a device for viewing sparklers and analogous lights, a rod having means at one end thereof for supporting a sparkler at right angles thereto, an opaque disk fixed on said rod parallel to said sparkler, an opening` in said disk, and two spaced, differently colored strips of transparent medium arranged in said opening parallel t Said sparkler.

11. In a. device for viewing spa-rklers and analogous lights, a rod having means at one end thereof for supporting a sparkler at right angles thereto, an opaque disk fixed on said rod parallel to said sparkler, an opening in said disk, two spaced, differently colored strips of transparent medium arranged in said opening parallel to said sparkler, and means whereby said strips can he moved slightly out of parallel with saidV sparkler.

l2. In a device for viewing sparklers and the like, a rod, means to support a sparkler at one end thereof and an apertured disc intermediate the ends of said rod.

13. A device for viewing sparklers and signature.

KOBY KOHN. 

